ISBN 978-0-9785461-1-3, US$120.00 (461 pp., 127  b/w ills.)

The Chapels of Italy From the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Centuries:  Art, Religion, Patronage, and Identity

Edited by Lilian H. Zirpolo

Section I.  Northern Italy

Chapel Decoration in Northern Italy.  Lilian H. Zirpolo

The Capitular Chapel of S. Niccolo in Treviso:  A Statement of Devotional Scholarship.  Jasmin W. Cyril

The Funerary Chapel of Aloisa Mantica:  Frescoing Provincialism and Religious Reform in Mid-Sixteenth Century Friuli.  Renzo Baldasso

The Saint and the Sepulcre:  Imitatio Christi and the Relics of St. Petronius at Santo Stefano, Bologna.  Scott B. Montgomery

Section II.  Tuscany

Dedicated Spaces:  An Introduction to Tuscan Chapels.  Arnold Victor Coonin

The Chapel of the Stigmata at the Franciscan Monastery of La Verna.  Stephanie Miller

Florence's Territorial Hegemony in the Eyes of Foreign Dignitaries:  The Cappella della Sacra Cintola in Santo Stefano, Prato. Mayu Fujikawa

Giorgio Vasari's Oratory of the Compagnia del Gesu at Cortona.  Liana De Girolami Cheney

Section III.  Rome

Roman Chapel Decoration:  Devotion and Identity. Marilyn Dunn

Shelter from the Storm:  S. Maria del Buon Aiuto in Rome.  Jill E. Blondin

Giorgio Vasari and Ascanio Condivi on the Iconography of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Frescoes.  Joseph Manca

Cappella del Bagno, S. Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome.  Lisa A. Festa

Domenichino's Polet Chapel, S. Luigi dei Francesi, Rome.  Lisa A. Festa

Section IV. Southern Italy

Early Modern Chapel Decoration in Southern Italy:  The Historical Background.  Martin Nixon

The Philosophies in Stone:  Reading The Sansevero Chapel in Naples. Martin Nixon

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Constructions of Death, Mourning, and Memory Conference, October 27-29, 2006:  Proceedings

ISBN 0-9785461-0-5, US$35.00 (241 pp., 115 b/w illusts.).

Papers presented by participants of the Constructions of Death, Mourning, and Memory Conference that took place in October 27-29, 2006 at the Woodcliff Lake Hilton in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, patronized by our organization.  Over 70 full-text papers are included, dealing with the subject of death in art, from the ancient to the modern era.  Sessions include: 

Representations of Death in Ancient and Medieval Art; Constructions/ Destructions in Contemporary Art, Architecture, and Film; The Seventh Act of Mercy; Mourning and Memorialization in Contemporary American Culture; Heroic Death: Models and Counter-Models; Photographs of a Being Before: Now; Memory be Damned:  The Obliteration of Monuments in  Rome from Antiquity to the Modern Era; Artists Speaking about Death in Their Art; Macabre Relics:  Medieval, Renaissance, Modern; Funeral Symbolism on Christian Tombstones and Monuments; Representations of Death in Nineteenth Century Art; The Culture of Death:  and Mourning in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Life and Death:  Celebrating the Deceased in Early Modern Europe, ca. 1300-1600; Death and Mourning in American Art; Images of Loss, Commemoration, and Protection in Early Modern Europe; Capturing the Cadaver:  Photographs of the Dead; Casualties of War; Death, The Risen Christ, and the Virgin in Art:  History and Iconography; Commemorating Victims and Heroes:  Terrorism and War Memorials; Strategies of Commemoration:  Women as Patrons and Subjects of Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Funerary Memorials; Facing the Beyond:  Self Fashioning in the Face of Death.

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Constructions of Death, Mourning, and Memory Conference, October 27-29, 2006:  Abstracts US$ 16.00.

Abstracts of the papers presented at the Constructions of Death, Mourning, and Memory Conference that took place in October 27-29, 2006 at the Woodcliff Lake Hilton in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, patronized by our organization.  Over 100 abstracts are included, dealing with the subject of death in art, from the ancient to the modern era.  Sessions include:

Representations of Death in Ancient and Medieval Art; Constructions/ Destructions in Contemporary Art, Architecture, and Film; The Seventh Act of Mercy; Mourning and Memorialization in Contemporary American Culture; Heroic Death:  Models and Counter-Models; Photographs of a Being Before:  Now; Memory be Damned:  The Obliteration of Monuments in Rome from Antiquity to the Modern Era; Artists Speaking about Death in their Art; Macabre Relics:  Medieval, Renaissance, Modern; Dying in the Midst of Laboring and other Representations in Art Concerning the Death of the Industrial Worker; Funeral Symbolism on Christian Tombstones and Monuments; Representations of Death in Nineteenth Century Art; The Culture of Death and Mourning in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Life after Death: Celebrating the Deceased in Early Modern Europe, ca. 1300-1600; Death and Mourning in American Art; Images of Loss, Commemoration and Protection in Early Modern Europe; Capturing the Cadaver:  Photographs of the Dead; Casualties of War; Death, The Risen Christ, and the Virgin in Art:  History and Iconography; Commemorating Victims and Heroes:  Terrorism and War Memorials; Strategies of Commemoration:  Women as Patrons and Subjects of Eighteenth- and early Nineteenth Century Funerary Memorials; Facing the Beyond:  Self-Fashioning in the Face of Death.

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